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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-8-22, Page 7eit T T I ht Tat SAVIOUR. IS IVITI1 llS DR. TALMAOE PREAQHES ON THE, CONTINUED l'IlISSION Ok' CHRIST. be scene Au tale CaravenserneeThe Quota thelittig or the Bettors ta the Temple— The Temptatton, Betrayal, Crucifixion nod Idission otero-daY• "On His Head Were Meaty Oronem," Reveletien xix, 12 Tin ia the aubjeet of en eloquent aermon by Rev. Dr, 97almage. Re apolm as follows: May your oars be Mort end your thoughts conceatrated and all the powers of your • soule.routed 1010.dt/1:leak toyouot"the march a Christ throtigh the centuriem" You thy, "Give um then, a good atarb, in rootria of vertnillian mid on floors of anosiao and amid oorridora of porphyry tuid under canopies dyed M all the aplendors of the setting sun." You can have no Buell etarting place, Atthe time our Chieftain was born there were castle:Am the beach of Galilee and palaces at .1 eruealem and imperial bathrootna at Jerioho, and obelisks at Cairo and the Pantheon at Rome, with its Corinthiau portico,and its sixteen granite columna, and the Harthenon at Ath ens, with its glisteuing coronet of temples, and there were mewl - tains of fine architecture in many parts of the world, but none of them was to be the starting place of the ChieftainI celebrate. A cow's stall, a winter month, an atmoaphere in which are the moan of camels and the baaing of sheep, and the barking of dogs, and the rough banter of hostelries. He takes his first journey before he could walk. Armed desperadoes, with hands a blood, were ready to snatoh him down into butchery. Rev. William H. Thompson, the veteran and beloved miesionary, whom I saw this last month in Denver, in his eighty-sixth year, has desoribed, in hia 'volume entitled " The Land and the Book," Bethlehem as he saw it. •Winter before last I walked up and down the gray Mlle of Jura limestone on which the city now rests. The fact that King David had been born there had not elevated the village into any apecial attention. The other fact that it was the birthplace of our Chieftain, did not keep the place in after years from special dishonor, for Hadrian built there the grove of Adonis, and for one hundred and eighty years the religion there obiterved was tbe most abhorrent debauchery the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain was considered dangerous from the Marie The woild had putsuspicious eyes upon him because at the time of his birth h the astrologers had seen stellar commotions a world out of its place and shooting down sailors think a ghOrit is gelding the tempea but he Omen thera into plaemlity, PhOWM hitneelf to be a great Obrlat for Haliore And he wallga the Atlaatio end the Patna and IVIediterrtenean end Adriatio now, an exhaueted and affrighted Yemeni wil lieten for hie voioe at half past three &Moo in the morning on any flee, Mame' et rn hour, they will hear bie voioe of conMessie and oneoure,gentent- We ',continue to follow oer Chieftein an here is a, blind man by the wayside. It I not from oatareot of tbe eye or from oplith alltdathe eymextinguither a the eeet but he woe horn blind. "Be opened 1" h cries, and at nrat there is a smartiog of th eyelids, mei then it twilight, and theta midnoon, and then, a elneit. "1 ase 1 1 tieel' Tell it to all the blind, and they at leas an alePreeiate it. And here i the widow' dead son, and here is the expired darnee and here is Lazarus! "Liver' our [Weibel cries, and they live. Tou it through al the bereft household, tell it among th gravers. And here around him gather the deaf and the dumb, and ' the sick, and at hi word they turn on their couches and blush from awful pallor of helplees illness t rubicund health, and the swollen foot o the dropsioal sufferer becomes as fleet as roe on the mountains. The music, of ehe grove and household wakens :tho deaf ear and lunatic and mania° return info brigh intelligence,end the leper's breath become as sweet as the breath of a ohild and flesh as roseate. Tell ib to all the -sick, through all* the homea, through all the hospitals. Tell it at twelve o'olook at night; tell i at two o'clock ie the morning ; tell it a half past three, and in the lint weeoh of the night, that Jeses walks the tempest. Still we folio* our Chieftain until the government that gave him no proteotion insists that he pay tax, and, too poor to raise the requisite two dollars and seventy. five cents, he orders Peter to oatoh a fiah that has in its month a Roman state,which is a bright coin (and you know that fish naturally bite at anything bright), but it was a miracle that Peter should have caught it at the first haul. d • a 1 1 a Now we 'follow our Chieftain until for the paltry sum of fifteen dollen Judas sells him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the betrayed. If for ten thousand dollar° or for five hundred dollars or for one hundred dollen your interests were sold out, con - eider for how much cheaper a sum the I ord of earth and heaven was surrendered to humiliation and death. But here while following him on a spring night between eleven and twelve o'clock we see the flash of torches and lanterns and we hear the cry of a mob of nihiliate. They are break- ing in on the quietude of Gethsemane with clubs—like a mob withsticks chasing a mad dog. it is a herd a Jerundem "roughs" led on by judas to arrest Christ and punish him for being the loveliest and best peing that ever lived. But rioters are liable to assail the wrong man. How were they to be sure which one was Jesus? "I will kiss him," says Judas, "and by thee signal you will know on whom to lay your hands of arrest." So the kin which toward a ceravansary. Star divination was. throughclut the human race and for all time a science. hes late as the eighteenth cen- God intended as the most seared demon- "' tury it had its votaries. At the court titration of affection, for Paul writes to the of Catharine de Medici it was honored. Romans and the Corinthians, end the Thessaloniaus concerning the "holy kiss," and Peter celebrates the kiss of charity, and with that conjunction of lips Laban met Jacob, and Joeeph met his brethern, and Aaron met Moses, and Samuel met Smile and Jonathan met David, and Orpah parted with Naomi, and Paul separated from his friends at lepheme, and the father in the parable greeted the returning prodi- •gal and when the millenium shall come we are told righteousness and peace will kiss each other, and all the world is invited to greet Christ as inspiration cries out "Klee the Son, lest he be angry and ye perish from the way"—that most sacred demon- stration of reunion and affection was dese- crated as the filthy lips of Judas touched the pure oheek of Christ, and the horrid smack of that kiss has its echo in the the treachery and dhbasement and hypo. orisy of all ages. As hi December, 1889, I walked on the way from Bethany, and at the foot of Mount Olivet, a half mile from the wall of Jerusalem, through the Garden of Gethsemane and under the eight venerable olive,trees now standing, their poniological ancestors having been witnesses' of the occurrences spoken of, the scene of horror and of crime came back to me, until I shuddered with the historical reminiscence. In further following our great Chieftain's march through the centuries, I find myself in a crowd in front of Herod's palace in Jerusalem, and on -a ximveable pletform placed upon a tasselated pavement, Pontius Pilate sits. An as ouce a year a condemned criminal is pardoned, Pilate lets the people choose whether it shall be an assassin or our Chieftain, and, they all cry out for the liberation of the aesassin, thus declaring they prefer a murderer to the salvation of the vvorld. Pilate tock a basin of water in front of these people and tried to wash off the blood of this murder from his hands, but he could not. They are still lifted, and I can see them looming up through all the ages, eight fingers and two thumbs standing out red with the carriage. Still following our Chieftain, I ascend the hilt wbiah General Gerdon, the great English explorer and arbiter made a clay model of. It is hard climbing for our Chieftain, for he has not only two heavy timbers to carryon his back, the upright and horizontal pieces of the cross, but he AR aeffering from exhaustion earned by the lack of food, mountain chills, desert heats, whippings with elmwood rods and years of maltreatment. It took our party in 1889 only fifteen minutes to climb to the top of the hill and reach that limeatone rook inyonder wall, which I rolled down from the apex of Mount Calvary. But I think our Chieftain must have taken a long time for the ascent, for he had all earth and all heaven and all hell on his back as he climbed from the base to summit and there endured • what William Cowper and John Milton and Charles Weeley and Limo Watts and James Montgomery anti all the other sacred poets have attempted to put in verse. and Angelo and Raphael arid Titian and Leonardo da • Vinci and all great Italian and German an dSpanish and French artiste boo ettempted to paint, and Bonnet and Masill on end George Whitefleld and Thomas Chalmers have attempted to preach. Something ot its overwhelming awfulness you may estimate from the faot that the sun whioh shihes in the heavehs could nob andel.° it ; the sun which unflinchingly looked -upon the deluge that drowned the world, when) without blinking looked upon the ruins at earthquakes which sivalloWed Liehen and Caraticae, and has looked un, blanched • on the battlefielda of Arbela, Blenheim, Megiddo end Eadraelomand all the scones or earwig° dig hewn twee ecalcled and drenohed the earth With human gore --theb Witt coeld not look upon the bone. t The aun deopped oiler its Moe a veil of t deed. It withdreW, X hid itaelf. It t said to the midnight," I resign to the Kepler, one of the wisest philosophers that the world eve e saw, declared it was a •Opt science. As late as the reign of Charles II Lily, an, astrologer, was called before the House of Commona in England-, to give his opiteign as to future events. For ages the bright appearance of Moos meant war, of jupiter, recede , power, of the Pleiades, meant storms at sea. And, as history moves in circles, I do not know but thet after awhileit may be found that, as the moon lifts the tides of the sea and the sun, affects the growth or bleating of cromother worhe besides these two worlds may have something to do with the destiny of indi- viduals and nations of this world. I do not wonder that the oommotions in the heavens excited the wise men on the night OW Chieftain was born. As he came from another world and after thirty-three years was again to exchiinge worlds, it does not aeem strange to me that astronomy should have felt the effect of his corning. And instead of being unbelieving about the one star that stopped, I wonder that all the worlds in the heavens did not that Christmas night make aome special demon. (deaden. Why should they leave to one • world or meteor the bearing of the news of the humanization of Christ? Where was Mars that night that it did not indicate the mighty wars that were to come between righteousness and iniquity? Where was Jupiter that night that it did not celebrate omnipotence incarnated? Where were the Pleiades that night thee ,they did not An- • nounce the storms of persecution that would • assail our Clhiefte.in? In 'watching this march of Christ through the centuries, we must net walk before him or beside him, for that would not be • reverential or worshipful. So we walk be- hind hire. We follow him while not yet in e his teen, up a Jerusalem terrace, to a • building six hundred feet long and six hundred feet wide, and under the hovering ,• splendor of gatewoes, and by a pillar crowned with capital chiseled into the ' shape of flowers and leavea, and along by walla of beveled masonry and near a marble • screen, until a group of white haired -philosophers and theologians gather round him, and then the boy bewilders and con- founds ensi overwhelms these scholarly septuagenarians with questions they cannot answer, ,and under his quick whys and *Worst and howl and whens they pull their white beards with embarrassment and rub their wrinkledforeheads in confusion and, putting their gaffe hard down on the it marble floor as they arise to go, they must feel like chiding the boldness that allows • twelve years of age to ask seventy-five years of age such puzzler. Out of this building we follow him into the Quarantania, the mountain of tempta- tion, its aide to this day black with robbers' dente Look 1 17p the aide of this mountain thine all the forces of perdition to effect our Chieftain's capture. But although weakened,by forty:days and forty nights of abstinence, he Mulls all, Pandemonium • do-wn the rooks', suggestive of how he can fowl into helpleathess `all our temptations. And now eve °limb right after him up the tough aides of the "Mount of Beatitudes," and on the highest pulpit of rocks the Valley itf light before him, the Lake of Galifoo on the right of him, the Mediter. ranean sea , to the left �f himltend lie preethes tiermen that yet will traesferin the World vifith its applied settiment. No we follow our Chieftain on Lake Galilee. • We most keep to the betel), for our feet are not eliod with the temernatural, and we remember whet poor work Peter made of it When lie tried to walk the .water, Christ our leader ja ott blie tom of the totting wavete - and it is about half Petit three in the morning, end itis tho darkeeb Lime jest before cleybreak. But by bhe fieehee of lightning We see him petting bis feet on the crestof the wave, stepping froni drat to creabowalking the white and, solid es though it were frogen sneer, The thla apectaele upon evbich I have n etreegth to gaze, thou ert blind, 0 mid night 1 aad for that reason I cornmit, t thee thia tragedy I" Theo the nightletw feud the bet lime by, aed the jaolese hewle In the ravities. Now we follow our Chieftein as the merry hie limp and laotireted form emid th ilowersand treee of a garden,the gledilusee • the oleandere, the liliea, the germ:items the mendrakerhdown five or is steps to aisle of granite, where he elope. Ba only a little while he aleeps there,for titer la an earthquake in all thee region, leavin the melte to thie day in their aslant au ruptured state, declarative of the Mot tha something extraordizery there htippeued And we see our Chieftain arouse from hi brief slumber and wrestle down the ruffle Deeth, who vvould keep him imprisoned i that cavern, antiput both hee 1 a on th monater, mid coining forth with a cry the will not ocase tre be echoed until on th great resurreetion day the door 9f the lots sepulchre shell be unhinged end Awe clanging let° the debris of denaolishe cemeteries. Now we follow our Chieftain to th shoulder of Monet Olivehand without wing he rises, the disciples clutching for hie robe too late to reach them, and across the gres gulfs of space with ono bound he pine th world which for thirty.three years he -had denied his companionship, and all heaven lifted a shout of welcome as he entered and of coronation as up the mediatoria throne he mounted. It was the greates day heaven had ever seen. They had him back again from tears, from wounds, from ills, from a world that never appreciated hen to world in whioh he was the °hie delight. In all the libretto of celestial music it was hard to tindetu anthem enough conjubliant to celebrate the joy saintly, seraphic, arch angelic. deific. But still we follow our Chieftain in his march through the centuries for invinsibly be still walks the earth, and bythe bye of faith we still follow him. - You can tell where he walks by the churches rend • hospitals, end reformatory instiations,, and houses of mercy that spring hp along. the way. I hear his tread in the sick room and in the abodes of bereavement. He marches on and the nations are gathering around him. The islands of the atm are hearing his voice. The continents are feeling his power. America will be his 1 Europe will be his 1 Asia will be his Africa will be bis 1 Australia will be his 1 All the earth will be his I Do you realize that until now it was impoesible for the world to be obieverted ? Not until very recenely has the world been found. The Bible talks shout "the enda of the earth" and " the uttermoot parts of the world" as being saved, but not until now have the "ends of the earth" been discovered, and not until now have the "utter most parts of the world" been revealed. The navigator did his work, the explorer did his work, the Wen. tist did his work, and itiow for the first time sinoe the world has been created has the world been known, measured off and geographized, the lost, hidden and unknown toot has been mapped out, and now the work of evangelization will be begun with an earneetneas and velocity as yet unima- gined. The steamships are ready; the lightning express trains are ready; the printing presses are ready; the telegraph and telephone are ready ; millions of Christians are ready and now see Christ marching on through the centuries. Marching on 1 Mooching on One by one governments will fall into line and. oonstieutions and literatures will adore his name. More honored and wow shipped is he in this year of 1895 than at any time since the year one, and the day hastens 'when all nations will join one procession, "following the Lamb whither. soever he goeth." Mare:Ming on 1 Maroh. ing an 1 This dear old world whine back has been scourged, vvhoae eyes leave been blinded, whose heart has beenwrung, will yet rival heaven. This planet's torn robe of pain and crime and demeutia will come off and the w hitiand spotless andglittering robe of helinessnd happiness will some on. The last wound will have stung for the last time; the last grief wilrhave wiped it last tear; the last criminal will have repented of the last crime and our •world thet has been a strag- gler aenong worlds, a lost star, a wayward planet, a rebellious globe, a miscreant satellite, will hear the voice that uttered childish plaint in Bethlehem and agonized prayer in Getheememe and dying groan of Golgotha, and as this voice cries "Come," our world will return from its wandering never again to stray. Marching on-lYlarch- ing on I Then this world's joy will be so great that other worlds besides heaven may be 'glad to rejoice with na. By the aid of powerful telescopes, year by year becoming more powerful, mountains in other eters have been discovered and chain& a.nd vol- canoes and canals, and the style of atmos- phere, and this will go on, and mightier and mightier telescopes will be invepted until I ahould not wonder if we will be able to exchange signals with other planets. And as I have no doubt other worlds are in- habited, for God would not have built such magnificene world houses to have thorn stand without tenants or occupants, in the final joy of earth'it redemption all as bionomy, I think, vtill take part, we sig. baling other worlds and they in turn sig- naling their stellar neighbors. Oh, what a day in heaven that will be when this march of Christ is finished I I know that on the cross Christ said, " It is finished," but he meant his sacrificial work was finished. All earth and all heaven knows that evangelization is not finishedbut there will come a day in heaven most raptutous. It maybe after our vvorld, which is thought to have about fifteen hundred million people, shall have on its decks twice Me preemie population, namely, three thousand minim souls, and all redeemed, and it will be after this world shall be to damaged by conflagration that no human foot oan tread its„surface aud no human being can breathe its air, but most certainly the day will come when heaven will be finished and the last of the twelve gates of the eternal city shall have clanged shut, never to open except for the admission of some Melestial ern baesage returning from some other world, and Chriet may strike his scarred but heal. d hand in emphasis on the erm of the inethyetine throne and say in substance. 'All my ransomed ones are gathered; the Work is done; I have finished My mooch hrough the oenturiee." When in 1813, after the battle of Leipsio, vithich decided bhe fate of the Nineteettth entury, in some respects the most trainee. ous battle ever fought, the bridge down, he river incaruadinecl, the streets chokei ith the woutided, the fielda for miles round drown with a dead soldiery' from vhich all Ogee, of humetaity had been ashed out, ihere inet in the publio square f that city of Leipsic, the allied cotignerore ad kinge who had gained the trietbry he king of Pruesiee tiso einperor of Plusaie. se` 0 Holmes, the Greatest Cruldnal of the Century. C't of. Edgar C. Beall, the phrenologist, of New York was handed a profile portrait of Henry H. Holmes. Prof. Beall was not told who was the original of the photograph - After examining the picturebe said. "Ib is difficult to see many signs of character, except those in the proOle, and even they are on a twist. The brain back or the ear is quite full in all the social fegion, but as there is no indication ce conscientiotimess in the top of the head he will probably not shoo much principle, sense of obligation or Odelity of attachment in his relations with people. The upper back head is expanded at ambition for display. He would, no doubt, be enter- prising, original and aggressive, but unscrupulous in his business methods. As to his business, I should sum him up as a speculator, and a bold one. Bela also very persiatent; and has more disposition to plunge than to plod. "His upper forehead, as indireted by the scanty hair in trent, indicates a marked development of agreeableness, politeness and blarney, which would doubtless enable him in his schemes readily to talk other peo- ple into seeing his Way. If he chose to study out any very extravagant project he could easily persuade other people to go in with him. He in a type of man whom I should expect, to find in general speculative enter- prises, such as introducing inventione, patent medioine eohemes, ete. The lack of conseientiousness is showo by the sloping of the top of the head on a line with the ear. If seen from behind it would resemble a gable- roof. It ought to approach more nearly to the square form to show an honest oharac ter. He seems like a man finely adapted to deal directly with people, but his chin seems rather weakoind his aim in life would - probably be to out a wide swath. In some reenacts he resembles a certain type of gamblers and sporting men. tIf educated to any of the learned professions he might have done very well in the law or journalism 'and he might have made a' very entertain- ing and popular clergyman if he had chosen to don the livery of heaven to serve the devil in." and cheered for tho continental victory they had together gained. History has made the scene memorable. Greater and more thrilling will be the spectacle when the world is all conquered for the truth, and in front of the palace of heaven the kings and conquerors of all the allied powers of Christren usefulness shall salute each other and recount, the struggle by which they gained the triumph, and then hand over their swords to bine who is the chief of the conquerors, orying: "Thine oh Christ, is the kingdom. Take the crown of victory, the crown of dominion, the crown of grace, the orown of glory." "Oa his head were many -crowns." THE P. 0. SAVINGS BANK. --- They Are Very Popular With the People • and Dave Done a Great Beal or Good. • The post office savinge bank is one of the beat managed and succeasful of the depart- ments of the Canadian Government. From the first it has been popular, and without gmestion it has done moth good M affording a safe pleat of deposit for smell juries and 80 encouraging a spirit of thrift among wage earners and people of email memo. Started in 1868, at the close of the fiscal year, June 30, it has received 3,247 depoeits totalling $212,507. Since then the growth by quinquennial periods has been as fol. lows :— No. of Amount Total of accounts, deposited. deposits. 1870. .12,178... $1,347,901. .$ 1,588,848 1875. —24,294.. 1,942,346... 2,926,030 1885.., .73,322 .. 7,098,459... 15,090,540 1890., .112,321... 6,5119,898... 21,990,653 1895. .120,628... 7,488,028... 26,805,542 Since tbe 1st Ootober, 1839, the rate of interest allowed has been 3? per cent. Before that date it was 4 per cent.. The effect on the deposits of the reduction did not last long. The drop in the total was from $23,011,422 in 1889 to $211990,653 ia 1890, since which latter year there , has been a steady increase up to the figure given in the table above. Since 1888 the Government has peen closing the indepen. denb savings bauks maiatained in some o the Maritime provinces by the Finance department and transferring the accounts to the post office, the safety acid cheapness of administration of Which may be inferred from the fact that in transactions of over a a hundred and twenty millions of dollard the total losses from every cause have been under eleven thousand dollars, $0,126 of which occurred in one year (1868) through the frauds of an employe. The total con ol‘ ItTANACEDIENT, including salaries, compensation to post - mestere, inspection, printing, etc., was last year $57,116, the cost of each deposit • or withdrawal being under one-quarter of one cent, and the precentage of cost of management to the balance due to deposit- ors eleven-fiftiethe si oee per cent. per annum, There is no loan to the Govern- ment vrhioli costs leo for management, and lb is to be remembered that, uxilike bonds, post office deposits are liable to no discount When the money is paid in. It hal been said that business men and pee& with money to invest use the poet office instead of an ordinary bahk, bece.uae the rate of interest allowed is slightly higher than in the case of leading toint Stock izistitutione. 17p to the present, if this hae been the muse, no great harm Oen be said to hewn ensued. The Government has obtained the money at about whet te bonded leen would mot) and it is only in late yeare that loans heve been ducceeefully put at 3 per cent. It le doubtful, howeeer, if there is mech founda- tion for the charge, The amount reoeived from ony one clepoeitor 10 by rule limited to 440001 mid the average foment at credit of depoeitore is only $222i the average depositor contributing to the total during est year just $52, The inferenee from the oderatenets of these -figures is that the he crown prince cif Swedes—tollowed by posts office is really a wage eartier's bank, he chicle of their armies. With drawn end its sittioets ie an evideece of general words these menarehs saluted each other thrift and prosperity. THE KOHINOOR. Ensiand's reat Dlansond Das a Some— what Tragic blistery. Nearly an of the great diamonds of the world have had romantic histories, but none of them approaches in this respect the Kohinoor, now among the Royal jewels in England, It is known to have been the property of the Rajahs of Maiwa neriely 1,000 years ago. In 1301 the Sultan Aladdin—himself the original of the 4Arabian Nights" hero—overcame the then rajah in battle, and captured the gem. Subsequently, however, be rttntored it to the Rajah, in the hands of whose decend- ants it remained until the rise of the Mogul dynasty. Mohammed Shah, of that dynasty, was on the throne of Hindostan when his coun- try was invaded, and his capital oity,Delhi was taken by the Persian, Nadir Shah. The conqueror confiscated all the jewels in the Delhi treasury, but the already famous Kohinoor was missing. A woman of Mohammed's barem gave informatiou thee the Emperor wore the stone concealed in his turban, and Nadir finally secured it by a clever ruse, offering to exchange turbans with Mohammed. At the death of Nadir the gem became the property of his son and successor, Shah Rokh,who was soon after overthrown by a ueurper, Aga Mohammed. 1" Aga Mohammed put Shah Rokh to the torture, to make him give up the stone, but Shah Rokh would not, Oen when hie eyes were put out with knives. Finally .Aga Mohammed ordered his victim's head to be shaved and encircled within a` diadem of paste, thee making a receptarile, into which boiling oii was poured. But even this did not induce Shah Rokh to give up the Kohinoor. He died 8000 after his injuries, and gave the stone to Ahmed Shah, founder of the Afghan Empire, who had come to his Daisstance. Tne Kohinoor descended from Ahmed Shah to his grandson, Shah Zeman. The latter vsas deposed from the -airline and had his eyes put out by his brother,Shah Shuja. Shah Zeman was shut up in a solitary prison cell for many years, where he con- cealed the gem in the plaster of the wall. By an accident an officer of the guard scratched Ids hand on one of the angles of the diamond, which projeoted almost impereeptibly, and this led to its discovery. So Shah Shuja got the stone, but pretty soon he himself was deposed, and his eyes were put out by his next brother, Shah Mahmud. He withdrew to the court of Bait* Singh for proteotion, but Runjit wanted the Ihohinoor, and persecuted Shuja and starved Shuja s wife until he got te Run. jib had it Betio a bracelet. It was confiscated by the British at the close of the great Indian mutiny, and was sent to England. It weighed 186 carats, and was redueed to 106 carats by cutting. Thougb not of the very finest water,having a slightly grayish tioge, it ie valued at $600,000. STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT. Opportunity is nob the kind of thing that Bawds around waiting to be embrehed, A woman can't be in love and in politics at the same time. The 'waters of oblivion emnetimea quench the thirst for glory. A woman things her hearth' emptyuntil she gets in it what she wants therm A. man knowa hole old long before he tionfeettee it. Very feW nide oat( Make money and frieeds at the earns title, Reason ia Writhed endoWed with the power of speecht An puttee ef thought my 'preheat a to Of regret, PEEVE n11)33118 BYI Disease Killing the TreePs $eht Na,dagneear. PoOrlY Planned Expeditlea—Net Enough Sledlelnes er Doctors and Dad lianhary Arrangemeots—the llespitela Pilled 'With the Sick. looka se it the Freneli war in Made, vicar might after all he a Milian. Not front look of valor in the French troope or from defeats in their equipmenhbut simply amd solely because the army is going through a siege of disease experiencing a death rate that is earnest without precedeut in the annals of war. When the expeditiou left France several authorities said that the greatest enemy the sob:Here would have to fight would be, not the insurgent Meditgae. cans, but Generals Forest and Fever." Acoordieg to the latest reports from, Meditgaaoar, which have appeared in the Paris papers, that has been precieely the ease, The trail of the army of the Republoo has been neirked by a long het of deathe occasioned by meningitishlysenteryebyphoid and bronchitis, not the deaths of soldiers In the field, froni savage bullets or spears. The news hi eurprisiug, for it Was eupposed that the Depertment of War had taken every possible precaution against eickness. When the English, a few years ago, as is remitted, fought a. aeries of bitter battles down in the Ashantee country, the troops carried along with them a small army of engineers and doctors. The trouble began at the verw outset, for the transportships were IIORRIELT OVERCROWDED and not in good sanitary condition. On the transport Stamboul disease and sickness gained snob headway that before Madaga- scar was reached twenty-one of the soldiera had died of meningitis. There was almost at great fatality abroad the other vessels of the fleet. Man after man succumbed to the sufficient accommodations and the lack of provision for even ordinary comfort,. Nevertheless mace on Madagascan soil a far worse state of things developed. The transports were unloaded and the men put on shore, and then it was found that absolutely no preprationa had been made to receive them. No huts had been built, and there were no engineers on the ground to provide ,for and establish sanitary regulations, and to mark out a military town that should be at leaat healthy. The garrison of IvIajunga, on the west coast, where the troops were disembarked, had done absolutely nothing in the matter. The thousands of newly arrived soldiers found it necessary to camp on the ground night after night under the insufficient pro- tection of hastily put up tents, which afforded as little relief in the hot sun as they did after dark. The provisions unloaded and piled up by the Commissary Department had to be left -unsheltered for a period of at least a fortnight, and the great heat of the climate spoiled by far the greater part of them. Another curious mistake was that of carrying all the medicines in one of the transport ships. This ship was delayed on her course and was one of the laat to land. By the time she had arrived the most of the troops had disembatked and had been for days without any medical remedies whatsoever. THE HEAT, THE RAINS, the absolute lack of medicine and the meagre supply of doctors—for, strangely enough, the French Government does not seem to have been alive to the possibilities of disease in Madagascar—produced within a feve days an almost complete disorganiza- tion of the troops. Typhoid and dysentery at once set in with terrible force, and in the glaring tropical sun and the sweltering nights with their miasmic vapors, there was nothing to stay their power. The apparatus for making ice and that for sterilizing milk that each regiment had in its kit turned out to be utterly useleae. The medicines wen they arrived were foundto have been badly selected, there being far too great a quantity of quinine and too little of other things. Now, at Majunga, the latest reports say, there are five hundred men sick in hospital No. 1. On the transport Shamrock, which lies just off that seaport town and has been • turned into a floating hospital, there are five hundred more near unto death from tropical complaints. At the sanitarium of Nossi-Comba half a thousand other un- fortunate Frenchman are in serious straits and very many will not recover. Over in the French stronghold of Tar- , metave, on the eastern coast, 2S7 marines are in the hospital. The deaths in this garrison, from Nov. 1 to early in July, came to nearly 50 per cent. of the total force., Nor do these figures tell the whole state of the hold disease has upon the in- vaders of Madagascan Many more are ill, but the army has been so broken into that they are still kept in the field. Several regiments of troops have by this time gainesi the table -land in the centre of the Island, after a series of toilsome jour- neys through a difficult and mountainous country and around the bends of lagoons that are infested with poisonous vapors. These regiments have had to tight every step of the way, Heves as well as tropical disease. Dysentery and bronchitis Mere eaten their way into thew midst to a large extent, and the Bombing madder and cold nights, combined with the other hardships, have much enfeebled them. Cod and Lobster Hatehing. One of the most interesting things is the report on the remarkable success of the Newfoundland cod hatchery. Within five years some 650,000,000 ova -have been hatched out and turned loose in Trinity Bay. As a consequence, this great arm of he sea,whioh was formerly largely depleted of its finny inhabitants, is now "swarming with cod." The fishermen see them in immense masses." Still more striking has been tbe artificial production of lobsters. During the five years the hatchery oleo home placed in the different bays of the Oland the ahnosb ineonosiveble uumber of 2,500,000,000 young lobsters. The fact that elicit artifidat replenishing of the Nowfoundleod waters has to be resorted to, although large female coa frequently contain, we believe, as many as 9,000,000 eggs, le perhaps the mot striking theatre. tion that oould be had of the 'immense destraotion of roe Which goes oo every year in the solder news of the notthern hemis- phere. Of (muesli, once the cod reach matur- ity they receive scant mercy at the hands ot the fishermen. We have read of one mou taltitig 500 in a ten hours' day. SAA -MARINE N4ULYXZ Oue or afoloo vet goo 'yoga witot CAA h Palled tlaideet Water at elle Bete or e *net* ael ttenr--A Sew Inigint o feestentittete, A deapeteli frota London ttayis te-A sititt0 Marline bog of the Genhet. typo luta Pat been completed in Paris for the Braziliere Government, at a cest of 250,000 frateeti. After the Anal testa at the boat have beep made on the Seine elm wiil be forwarded by Veil to ToulonoWhere she will be thipped on board. an iron -Mad for Rio de janeire. -Experiments with tho Goubet boete hove proved conclusively thot they are habitable by a crew, The supply of froth air tee the bog is renewed from seservoir tubes of oxygen, and the vitiated air is forced down. - ward into the Sea by puums, Which WOrlt aotome.ticallye The orew will content of au officer and two men, who can without difilouiter remain under water for diteee 'loam 'rhe craft ie eight =tree in length and one and three.quarter Metres in diameter in the centre, ansi la pointed at the end ; her sheme is that of a cigar. The hull is 91 gun.bronze and is cast in three tiedione, whieh are so:rowed together froin withal. The boat is fitted with an electric motor of two horeetpower, which will enable her to make eight knote an hour. She te also furnished with oars, similar in shape to & duck's foot, by meana of which she can be rowed in any direotion in case of aecideati to her machinery. The absolute seeurity of those on board is secured by a eafety weight of 1,200 kilogrammes fastened under her keel, the unscrewing of whioh will cause the boat to rise to the surface of the water like a. cork. She can be me.de to sink to any depth or to rise by taking in or expelling water ballast. The usuel depth to which she is regulated to slink is about four metres. She can he steered either by her screw or her rudder. A vertical. telescope enables those oa board to take their bearings. Automatic Orem-, does can lee released at any depth, °Weise.. mg the plungingand leeching which at- tends the launching of torpedoes by the ordinary method. Boats of the Goubet type can be used in finding dormant tor- pedoes or to cut the wires by meana of which torpedoes are to be exploded. BRITISH JUSTICE. Its Adantustratioa in Canada Creates V. 5. Respect. The Chicago Journal says :—"The fathers of the Republic, in their wisdom, adopted the English common law bodily, and their descendants have so corrupted alt that portion of it that pertains to the punish- ment of crime, that is now nearly worth- less. But in every part of the British Empire the criminal laws have been made more stringent, and the execution of these laws more speedy and certain. If Canadian laws and courts are what the people want why not have them ?" The Evening Post of New York has the following :--" The number Of states and countries where the man Holmes is wanted to be tried for murdering people in order to defraud life insurance companies, is increasing from day to day. The question which state or country wants him ,most will perhaps never be decided, but tbe question which one ought to have him first is already decided unanimously in favor of Canada. The reeeon for yielding our claims is that if Holmes were tried in this country and convicted, it vvould take several years to execute him. With the Buchanan case freshly in mind, we should expect a series of stays, new trials, and appeals to higher state courts, lasting a couple of years, and other dilatory motions in the Supreme court of tbe 'United States, based on clauses in the federal conatitution, ending, perhaps, with the execution of the criminal while his counsel were preparing fresh papers in the OfiSt. The use of the federal constitution as a means of delaying the execution of murderers is comparative- ly a new growth in criminal jurisprudence, and is likely to be worked for all it is worth and more, unless the Supreme court adopts some decisive rule to free itself of the parasite. By all means let Canada try Holmes first." BRUTAL CRUELTY. An Insane illan's :Murder—Ile vas Pounded to Death by Ws Two Keepers. A despatch from Chicago says:—George Gough and J. B. Anderson, attendants at the insane asylum at Dunning, are locked up, charged with the murder of Geo. /3tulizer a patient at the asylum. Budizy was a very violent maniac. He was confined first in the Alexis Brothers' hospital, end from here was taken to the Donning asylum, where he VMS given in charge of Gough and Anderson. Budizy seemed in excellent health, but in the morning he was found dead in bed. The attending physician at t the asylum, suspecting tennethituz wrong, examined the body and found that the flesh all over the chest was badly beaten and bruised. Budizy had been lit- erally hernmered to death. Every rib in his body was broken, nearly all of them in two places, and several of them were fractured four times. The breast -bone was broken in two places, the abdomen ono mese of heavy blows, several of which had inflicted injuries on the intestines etiffitieet in themselves to have caused death. In several places on the chest and side the blows had been dealt so viciously that the flesh was literally torn from the bone, and was hanging in loose shreds,. Superin- thndeut Morgan, after the coroner's jury had rendered a verdiot to the effect that Battey lied been pounded to death by utt. known people, picked out Gough ahd Anderson as the two men most likely to be gufley of the orime,they having had oharge of the ward during the night. Feeding by Clookwork. George W. Belt, of Auburn, has invented an ingenious device for feeding his hone, and he does it with one of the ordinary little alarm cloaks. The horse geta its feed of grain when the alarrn goes offt For Mebane°, if Mr. Belt wants the horse to have itS MOrAillf4 feed of grain at 5 o'olock, and he himself ilhee not tare to turn out nett' 6 o'clock, he seta his alewife for 5 o'clock) and when the mornieg comae the hare gets its breakfast an hour before ite owner e eyes aro open. It itt so arranged that the alai= pulls the elide, lotting the great run through a slelee to the inttuger.